Seems like they have the possibillity of getting women who use them in trouble if it collects data and tracks them or something

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    Bodies don’t have a set schedule for things. An AFAB body is supposed to routinely ovulate and have a period, but lots of things can disrupt that and cause things to happen early or not at all or delayed. Tracking becomes important for a lot of medical reasons, but a common situation in which it’s important to track is for conceiving. And yes privacy is a huge risk with using an app to track, and with how the government in the US is currently talking about punishing women for not conceiving or having miscarriages etc

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      The menstrual cycle is extremely complicated. Somewhere in my storage boxes there’s an entire page of each different hormone that are all dependent on each other via negative/positive feedback loops. It’s crazy complicated and it’s a wonder there’s a schedule at all.